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To: BipolarBob; Campion; metmom
"If that's the case he needs to take a vow of silence until he has something to say worth saying."

My daily prayer!

But it is essential to understand that there is a difference between papal opinion and Catholic Magisterium.

It could not be otherwise. We have had 266 popes. Almost all of them, before this one, have served at times when the pope's every word, wink and raised eyebrow was not transmitted in real time 24/7/365. Therefore the vast majority of Catholics in the past could lead good Catholic lives to their dying day, without being much influenced, for good or ill, by any given pope.

At any time and place, one can and must live a good Catholic life, in intimate union with Jesus Christ Our Lord.

When it took months to get word from Rome to Oslo, not much was delivered in the papal diplomatic pouch except the kind of official pronouncements that come written in Gothic lettering and gold leaf. You weren't inundated by an inhuman torrent of human utterance known as "the pope's opinions" from our Chatty Cathy-lic Care Bear.

This is a new situation. A uniquely dangerous one. And good Catholics are only slowly learning how to stand and resist.

62 posted on 05/25/2016 3:09:23 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("What people will submit to, is the exact measure of injustice which will be imposed upon them.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
And good Catholics are only slowly learning how to stand and resist.

But there were also other good Catholics who had learned the same much earlier into this pontificate.

68 posted on 05/25/2016 3:33:17 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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